Operation Lowdown

Operation Lowdown was a military operation of the Iraq War carried out by the US Marine Corps on 14 May 2008. The Marine Corps targeted Sunni insurgents occupying a mostly-Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad, and the marines faced heavy resistance from militants near Saddam Square and the neighborhood mosque. The Marines inflicted heavy losses on the insurgents in combat along the road to the mosque and the square, but they were unable to completely occupy the neighborhood due to heavy resistance. The militants continued to use the area as a base against the marines, and the operation had little impact on the course of the war.